Glove and mitten structure



B. STEWART.

GLOVE AND MITTEN STRUCTURE.

APPLICATION FILED ocT.23. 1920.

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UNITED STATES BENJAMIN STEWART, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

GLOVE AND MITTEN STRUCTURE.

Application filed October 23, 1920.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN STEWART, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Glove and Mitten Structure, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improvement on my mitten, shown in my prior patent, issued October 12, 1920, No. 1,355,181.

A further object of my invention is to provide a cut for a wrist band and a plurality of thumb receiving members, whereby one half of the device may be superposed on the other half and the thumb members sewed together along their edges with a continuous seam for thereby connecting the wrist band members, the ends of each wrist band member being sewed together for completing a wrist band extending in opposite directions from the openings into the thumb members, which device may be used with the thumbs inclined in either direction and in connection with a mitten or glove, having a hole or holes therein through which the thumb receiving members may be projected.

Still a further object is to provide a mitten body having a long wrist open at its extreme end and adapted to be used for the mitten body. after the other end of the mitten has been worn and is cut off, and to provide reinforcements for the insides of the opposite edges of the long wrist, so that each half with its reinforcement may, when desired. be made to serve as a mitten body, which reinforcements are sewed along the edge of the long wrist at the sides thereof and around the outer ends. lVhen desired the outer ends of the long wrist may be sewed together. or they may be left unsewcd, and each side with its reinforcement forms a mitten ready for use.

lVith these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of my device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a plan View of a half of a pattern for one of my devices.

Fig. 2 shows a plan view of one of such patterns superposed on another and sewed Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 8, 1921.

Serial No. 418,957.

together along the edges of the thumb receiving members.

Fig. 3 shows a plan view of the device, partially completed, with one side of the wrist band turned down.

Fig. a shows a detailed, sectional view taken on the line 4- 1 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 shows a plan view of the finished device before it is turned inside out.

Fig. 6 shows an end view of the completed device.

Fig. 7 shows a plan view of a mitten body of the kind used with my glove and mitten structure.

Fig. 8 shows a plan view of a modified form of a mitten body; and

Fig. 9 shows a detailed sectional view taken on the line 99 of Fig. 8.

The making of a wrist band and thumb structure and a mitten body structure of the design or pattern herein shown makes it pos sible to effect great economy in the way of saving of material and of labor and manufacturing operations.

I will now describe the construction by explaining the various steps thereof.

The cloth is laid down in layers superposed upon each other, each pair of layers arranged with the surfaces, which are to be outside of the completed article, together. Byso arranging the layers of cloth, it will be seen that two adjacent layers, after the patterns have been cut with the die, may be taken off the pile together, already matched and superposed one on the other for the sewing operation.

A large number of pairs of sheets are then cut, preferably with a die, forming patterns, substantially like that shown in Fig. 1, having a wrist band portion, indicated by the reference character 10, with four thumb members 11 extending therefrom and formed thereon.

In cutting the patterns with a die, each pattern may be cut with any desired number of thumb members. As illustrated, the patterns have four such members, which is the preferred number.

One pair of the patterns are then sewed around the edges of the thumb members, as at 12, with one continuous seam, for forming the thumb pockets or receiving portions. The top wrist band member is then folded down along the upper edges of the thumb members to lie on the thumb members, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The wrist band members are then folded over from end to end, with their edges at their free therefrom midway from edge to edge of said wrist band.

Either edge of the wrist band may be made the top and the particular thumb receiving member, which is in use, may be made to incline in the proper direction for use.

The device is put on the hand and the thumb is then insertedthrough a hole 15 in a mitten body 16. The body 16 may be provided with two holes, as illustrated in Fig. 7, if desired.

It will be seenthat by reversing the direction in which the hand is inserted through the wrist band, either side of the thumb receiving member may be made to receive the wear of the ball of the'thumb. It thus appears that the thumb receiving members really have no front or back and both sides may be worn, so as to receive the wearers use.

The thumb members may be reinforced with an extra layer of cloth, if desired.

I have found that by treating the edges of the wrist band with shellac, binding is made unnecessary. v v

After one line of patterns has been cut from a strip of cloth, the next one may be so cut, that the thumb members of the second series of patterns project into the spaces between the thumb members of the first series of patterns, so as to effect a maximum saving of cloth.

It will be obvious that by sewing the pattern members together for making a completed device, as hereinbefore shown. the thumb receiving members may be inclined upwardly or downwardly, as may be desired, from the opening through the wrist band member, so that either edge of the wrist band member maybe made the upper edge, and the thumb receiving member will serve equally as well, regardlessof which end of the wrist band is the upper one. The wrist band may be then worn on either the right orleft hand.

There are no seams betwen the thumb and the hand when the device is in use.

, Both sides of each thumb member may be worn out, and my device thus gives practi form of the mitten body, in which there is provided an ordinary mitten body 20, hav-- mg the holes 21 and 22. The wrist portion of the mitten body 20 is made unusually long, as at 23, and the opposite sides are secured together at their side edges but are left disconnected at their ends, as at 24.

On each side of each mitten half 23, there is sewed around the end and to the sides a liner member 25, extending inwardly and terminating short of the holes 21 and 22.

After the mitten body 20 has become worn, it may be cut off and the ends of the mitten having the members'23 may be used, and it will be seen that each member 23 with its liner 25 will form a mitten, which will re ceive the fingers of the hand.

Furthermore, the ends may be sewed across as at 24:, after the body 20 has been cut oil, so as touse a mitten reinforced on both sides.

While the wrist band is preferably made with four thumbs, it can be made with a different number, if desired.

The free edges of the wrist band members may be dipped in shellac or some suitable material, as mentioned, or be bound or hemmed. The edge around the hole in the mitten or glove body may be similarly treated.

An elastic band may be placed at the free edge of the wrist band, if desired.

I claim as my invention:

1. A glove andmitten structure, comprising a wrist band structure, comprising an endless band, composed of two members, each having a plurality of half thumb receiving members connected therewith, the thumb receiving members of the respective wrist band members being sewed together at their edges, each wrist band member having its ends sewed together.

2. In a device of the class described, a pair of wrist band members, each having formed along one edge a plurality of half thumb receiving members, the thumb receiving members of the respective members being sewed together along their edges, and the ends of each wrist band member being sewed together.

3. In a device of the class described, a pair of endles wrist band members arranged with their edges adjacent to each other, each wrist band member having projecting from its edge adjacent to the other, a thumb member, the thumb members of the respective wrist bandmembers, being sewed together along their edges. y 7 1 Des Moines, Iowa, October 19,1920.

BENJAMIN STEWART. 

